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Facebook pages may soon be off-limits to employers in their assessments of potential new hires, whether they 鈥渓ike鈥� it or not.

Three state senators 鈥� Bruce Starr, R-Hillsboro; Betsy Close, R-Albany; and Tim Knopp, R-Bend 鈥� recently introduced legislation that would safeguard individuals鈥� social networking privacy.

According to the senators, employers in recent years have begun requiring job applicants to provide user names and passwords for private accounts on social networks such as Facebook. Other times, employers make such strong suggestions that job applicants feel coerced into yielding that information, the senators contend.

Senate Bill 499, the Social Networking Privacy Protection Act, would prohibit employers and universities from requiring applicants to turn over passwords to social profiles or email accounts.

鈥淎n employer or university wouldn鈥檛 ask for access to someone鈥檚 home or personal diary,鈥� Close said in a prepared statement. 鈥淒emanding log-in information for social networking sites is just as invasive, if not more so. An individual鈥檚 right to privacy should extend to their life on the Internet.鈥�

According to a press release, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois and California have passed similar legislation.